band aid II
so i pretty much say this is THE song that changed my life...and now they are redoing it 20 years later with a new ensemble. they just re-recorded it this weekend.
bbcnews.com even has a blog about the day! HA!...check it out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4008261.stm
i remember vividely in 8th grade i used to write everyone who was in band aid in the margin of my notebooks, i had the lyrics & names of the artists in band aid on my folders. i actually have a small photo of band aid on my tack board in front of me right now that's been on there for well, about 20 years!?
when i go home this weekend i have to go thru many of my things bc my parents will be moving. i will have to find my first journal...bc i know i wrote about the recording of band aid, etc. but i did find this that i wrote in one of my journal's re: bob geldof and live aid (bob wrote this in the live aid book):
"what would be possible if we could be like july 13, 1985 all the time?
who will speak up for our selflessness?
anyway
please remember this day all of your lives. it's important.
remember the they you wanted to help.
remember the bands & crews who did it.
remember the dying who were allowed to lived
remember on the day you die, there is someone alive in africa bc you watched a pop concert.
remember your tears & joy.
remember the love
remember on that day for once in our bloody lives WE WON.
remember that even though it's over, it need not stop.
remember the dying goes on & remember so that as time passes, you can tell others "it's possible, i know".
what a day, what a lovely day. "
-bob geldof, july '85
and here we are 20 years later...and the fight is still on.
band aid & live aid have always represented to me that if you had a dream you can do it...bc they did something. they really made a difference.
posted by kristen @ 11:47:00 AM
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